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The mayorâs race in New York City took an unusual turn on Wednesday â into a candidateâs apartment.
Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a leading Democratic candidate in the contest, gave reporters a tour of an apartment in the multiunit townhouse he owns in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
The viewing came as rival campaigns questioned his residency and fitness for office following a Politico New York story that highlighted discrepancies over his residency on official documents. Mr. Adams has said he moved into Brooklyn Borough Hall for a time after the pandemic hit, and also owns a co-op in Fort Lee, N.J.
On the heels of the defund the police movement and escalating gun violence, Black voters will once again be tested on where they stand on policing, an issue that affects them disproportionately.
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Leading climate scientists have spoken, and according to the I
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